Surrendering authorial agency and practicing transindividualism in Tumblr's role-play communities

The writer who engages in acts of online role-play or make-believe is often thought to promote him or herself as an individual agent. However, when members of Tumblr's role-play communities engage in play, they create scenes together that prompt surrender of authorial agency. In doing so, they...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: K. Shannon Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2017-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.1020